Hanacpachap Cussicuinin (1631)~ritual Formulario, in Quechua Juan Pérez DE Bocanegra

Juan Gutierrez de Padilla - Mexico Barroco: Puebla II - Missa "Ego Flos Campi"
Benjamín Juárez Echenique (Conducer) - Angelicum de Puebla, Schola Cantorum & Niños Cantores de la UNAM (Performers)
EAC Rip | FLAC + CUE | LOG | 1CD | 225 MB | Cover | RAR
Genre: Classical Baroque | Label: URTEXT | Year: 1996

This C.D. unveils for us after 340 years of slumber, this magnificent masterpiece by Juan Gutiérrez Padilla, chapel master of Puebla’s cathedral. Written for double choir the grandiose Missa Ego Flos Campi represents the height of Gutiérrez Padilla’s musical productions. This historical performance on period instruments and historical organs is one of many fruits of four decades of musicological research by E. Thomas Standford in the archives of Mexican City and Puebla cathedrals.

The remarkable career of composer Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, dubbed the "Spanish Mozart" by musicians of the late nineteenth century, was cut tragically short by his death just ten days before his 20th birthday. Today his fame rests as much on brilliant potential as it does on his actual output of music (of which there is, sadly, quite little). Arriaga was born on January 27, 1806 (50 years to the day after Mozart), in the Basque town of Bilbao. An account of his life by musicologist and composer Francois Fétis (with whom Arriaga would later study) indicates that young Juan Crisóstomo received almost no childhood training in music, though it is quite possible that this account (like many later ones, including those that …….

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With this very interesting program the Arriaga-year opened in Bilbao, the birthplace of the composer who died in 1826, not yet twenty years old. His vocal works are performed according to the original manuscripts.